roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV - PUBLIC

roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Brad Cox (bcox@gmu.edu)
Mon, 16 Jan 1995 16:38:09 -0500 

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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 16:38:09 -0500
To: roundtable@cni.org
From: bcox@gmu.edu (Brad Cox)
Subject: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC


Jack Keith <jkeith@dorsai.dorsai.org>
> 
>The problem I refer to is that this discussion, and many discussions
>I've been witness to on the roundtable, has devolved into, or more
>accurately was initially cast as, a zero sum game: <the point is, he
>picked the fight.>  The point is, we choose to cast each argument,
>discussion, dialogue into the form of a fight with a winner or loser.
>The fight, the contest, the game, the ego-involvement and investment
>become the point and the solution seems to become a side issue if
>even that.


Exactly why I stopped responding. If discussion is not welcomed all 
that's left is debating team propagandizing. Only debates have winners 
and losers.  Discussions have winners all around.

And I'm rather deeply disinterested in debating team posturing aimed 
at cutting off diverse opinions. I get quite enough of that in the 
daily news.

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